[Qgis-user] Integer fields become real!

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Vito,

On Wed, 26. Nov 2008 at 15:33:14 +0100, Vito Meuli wrote:
> I'm using shapefile exported from PostGIS using pgsql2shp.
> But QGIS takes the integer fields as they were real!
 
> I've tryed different version of PostGIS, and something changed: integer=int4 
> become a 16 digit precision in a shapefile exported using PostGIS 1.0.6, and 
> a 11 digit precision using PostGIS 1.3.3...
> What a pity, it seems that an integer remains an integer if it is 10 digit 
> precision!

Right, that's a restriction of OGR[1], which we use to access shape files.


Jürgen

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/809

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